Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:16:02 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding bsdiff to the base system Message-ID: <4880d4c8fa4f5a350a0072ab1574ecc9@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200504020126.16738.max@love2party.net> References: <424B3AAB.6090200@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <p0621020fbe735b39c6b3@[128.113.24.47]> <424DC747.4020604@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <200504020126.16738.max@love2party.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Apr 1, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Max Laier wrote:
> On Saturday 02 April 2005 00:12, Colin Percival wrote:
>>>> In the last episode (Apr 01), Mario Hoerich said:
>>>>> Not that it's important, but the names probably aren't the best
>>>>> possible choice, as 'bsdiff' seems to suggest 'BSD licensed diff'.
>>
>> No, it would be "BSD licensed iff". :-)
>>
>>> At 9:28 AM -0600 4/1/05, Dan Nelson wrote:
>>>> Yes, that's what I assumed this thread was about for the first
>>>> couple posts. bdiff/bpatch sound like better names. What's the
>>>> 's' stand for?
>>
>> Err... nothing. Or rather, I'm not sure what it stands for. I was
>> looking for a name for a diff tool which worked on "binary software"
>> (or
>> more generally, files with lots of "byte-substitutions"), and which
>> uses
>> "bytewise subtraction" as part of its encoding process... (I'm sure
>> you
>> can think of other possible meanings of "bs", as well.)
>
> Though it's "*B*inary *S*mall diff" ... and I like that name!
Heh, that's what I thought the "bs" stood for at first as well given
that that is bs{diff,patch}'s claim to fame.
--
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4880d4c8fa4f5a350a0072ab1574ecc9>